Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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They tire of quiet, that have known the storm
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
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It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.
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If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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It was written without fear and without research.
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Don’t feel bad when I die; I’ve been dead for a long time.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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